and speaking of Andrew and Facebook...

[cosmolinguist]

On the bus home from a day doing boring, shitty things in town, it warmed my little heart to see him say this:

I would normally be very, very glad that there's a torrential downpour now that's finally cutting some of the oppressive humidity that's been making me ill for much of the last week or so.
However, Holly is outdoors, and in a light summery dress, so I am instead feeling sorry for her.

(A lot of people might be surprised to see an autistic person showing empathy, but I'm not because I know they're perfectly capable of it; I was surprised he'd noticed what I was wearing today and remembered it several hours after he'd last seen me. I'm not even sure I knew he could do that!)

So I told him how touched I was, because I know what it is for him to be anything other than rapturous when rain cuts the summer humidity.

And our friends apparently went "aw!" seeing us like this. I noted that it did make a nice change from us being so aggressive toward each other that people worry we're about to divorce, which led to the best comment at all: "Not gonna lie, I saw this status and my first assumption was that you were either having a bad patch, or Andrew had been replaced by a Manhunter robot."

Comments

[quirkytizzy]

Lol, that is very heartwarming! Sometimes it's hard for people to keep that kind of info in their heads, and for autistics, I think that's a common problem. So way awesome that he was able to keep that in mind and reach out about it! <3

[cosmolinguist]

I don't know how true it is for autistics in general, but I generally assume that he doesn't know anything about his environment/surroundings, and I'm rarely disappointed in that expectation. :)